Program teaches leadership you can use your entire life

Cherie Roger and Shaney HillColumnists

Sunday

Oct 12, 2008 at 8:00 AM

The LSU AgCenter is ready to embark on the 2008-09 4-H year.The organization presents many benefits that can follow you throughout life. Choosing to be part of Terrebonne Parish 4-H will help you learn leadership skills, citizenship skills and life skills. Members of 4-H will make many friends and memories throughout the year. The LSU AgCenter has a successful program because of its volunteers, but the involvement of parents in their children’s projects and activities is just as important.LSU AgCenter agents are ready to work with new and returning 4-H members.If you would like more information about 4-H or joining 4-H, contact the Terrebonne Parish 4-H office at 873-6495 or e-mail croger@agcenter.lsu.edu or shill@agcenter.lsu.edu.

The LSU AgCenter has a new way to market the 4-H program: car magnets. Get one for your family car, grandparents, aunts and uncles or get one to display on the refrigerator.The magnets cost $8 per on or $6 a piece for an order of two or more.To buy a magnet, visit the 4-H office after Nov. 1, or mail in an order form and payment to the 4-H office, 511 Roussel St., Houma. To get an order form, visit the LSU AgCenter’s Web site at www.lsuagcenter.com or from your 4-H agent at your monthly club meeting.The magnet has a white background in back of a green clover and black lettering.

A training workshop for all 4-H club officers is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Oct. 27. Officer responsibility workshops and mock 4-H club meetings will be conducted.Officer manuals will be distributed to each school’s set of officers: president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and reporter.All 4-H club officers are encouraged to attend.

If you are interested in raising chickens for 4-H the Broiler Project may be your best option. Broiler Project order forms will be distributed at October club meetings. Deadline to order the baby chicks is Nov. 7.

The regional rabbit show is scheduled for Nov. 24 at the Lafourche Parish Ag Facility in Raceland. Entry forms can be picked up at the 4-H office in Houma. There will be a rabbit grooming and handling workshop for all 4-H members interested in the rabbit project from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Nov. 24 meeting.

If you enjoy working with youth and you have a special talent, interest or hobby that you would like to share with 4-H members, the group wants you as a 4-H volunteer. The group offers its 4-H members more than 50 different projects to focus on during each year.The group wants to make this 4-H year better than last year, but the group needs your help. If you are interested in helping out in any of the project areas – monthly club meetings, Fashion Club, Food and Fitness Club, parish events, livestock, overnight trips, other interest or ideas for project clubs – contact Cherie Roger at 873-6495 or e-mail croger@agcenter.lsu.edu.4-H is a youth-development program which allows its participants to gain knowledge and life skills enabling them to become positive, productive, capable and compassionate members of their communities.

Cherie Roger and Shaney Hill are 4-H youth-development agents with the LSU AgCenter. They can be reached at 873-6495 or Terrebonne@agcenter.lsu.edu, shill@agcenter.lsu.edu or croger@agcenter.lsu.edu. For information, visit the agency’s Web site at www.lsuagcenter.com.

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